Mikamo Fudo Son

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Mikamo Fudo Son みかも不動尊
Tochigi Prefecture, Fujioka Town

Including other Fudo to wash your money



This statue is outside and people pour water over it when making a wish. They also wash their money, a custom usually associated with Benten (Zeni-arai Benten 銭洗い弁天, for example in Kamakura). You wash some money, coins or paper, dry them properly and put them back in the purse. You then have to spend that money within a week, and it will come back to you in double, triple and even more ... if you wash it properly. Below are some more of these money-and-water-friendly Fudo statues.

みかも不動尊には、「銭洗い不動尊」もあります。

よく、弁天様は見かけたりしますが、お不動さまの銭洗いは珍しく思い紹介させていただきました。
お不動さまの霊験あらたかな銭洗いです。みなさんも、御祈願してみてください。ひょっとしたら・・・



名称：三毳山 不動院　Mikamoyama Fudo-In
通称：みかも不動尊 Mikamo Fudo Son

宗派：真言宗御室派
御本尊：不動明王
所在地：栃木県藤岡町

http://www.cnet-ga.ne.jp/kenta/mitsu/mikamo.html

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Money-washing Fudo at Sengaku-Ji, Shinagawa, Tokyo
銭洗不動, 泉岳寺



This temple is also home to the grave of Tatsugoro, a famous fireman during the Edo Period.

消防署の庁舎見学をすませ、そのすぐ前にある黄梅院に立ち寄った。ここは鎌倉にあるのと同じようにお金を浄水で洗う仕組みがあった。かたわらの石碑の説明によると「お金を大切にと祈願すれば、広く世の中の人々を済度し、商売繁昌、お金に不自由なく、一家の福徳円満、苦を抜いて楽となし、悲しみを転じて喜びとなすことができる」とあった。

At this temple there is also a special statue of Jizo.
o-keshoo enmei Jizoo お化粧延命地蔵尊
http://www.ramblersnet.com/osanpo/sanpo4/docu4/sanpo405.html

. Keshoo Jizoo 化粧地蔵 Kesho Jizo Bosatsu with make-up .


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Koobai-In, Mitato Ward Tokyo 銭洗不動（黄梅院）
東京都港区高輪一丁目



黄梅院 宝雲山
高輪１の２７の２１
標識に禅宗とあるが、臨済宗か曹洞宗か不明。入口から下って行くと正面に墓所、右並びに庫裏。その右に本堂、高床式である。本堂にある提灯に書いてある文字では、高輪銭洗不動とあるので、不動明王も祀ってあるようだ.

高輪銭洗不動 Also called: Takanawa Zeniarai Fudo.
http://aitaii.com/shigei/minatoku/takanawa/takanawa.html

And one more
Asa no Taki, famous waterfall
with a money-washing Fudo close by.
碓井川の近くの「麻苧の滝」の大岩直下にある「弁財天」に行く。
ここは銭洗い不動が祀られている.

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Pouring Water over the Fudo Statue
Mizukake Fudo 「水かけ不動尊」



http://www.owlet.net/blognplus/index.php?e=283


These statues have their own page. There are quite a lot.
CLICK HERE ! !!!!!

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Zeni-Arai Benten at Kamakura :
Zeniarai Benten

... there are a handful of devout worshipers, mostly merchants, who deeply revere the Shrine and wash bundles of 10,000-yen (roughly US$80) bills. (As noted above, zeni means coins, not paper money.) In fact, hundreds of torii gate appearing near the entrance of the Shrine were donated by those merchants who believe their wealth was brought by virtue of the power of Ugajin here.

Those merchants come visit here every month on the Day of Serpent by all means to attend the rituals held by the Shrine. Police warns car-drivers not to drive into the neighborhood on weekends and the Serpent Days in particular. Most crowded is the first Serpent Day of the year, which usually falls on an early February day and Benten Festival takes place.

Zeniarai Benten Shrine , Kamakura


. WASHOKU
Benten, Benzaiten 弁天 /　弁財天 and Food


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A comment from Mark Schumacher on the subject

Curious that Fudo is associated with the money-washing tradition.

Benzaiten, a goddess of fortune, is easy to understand. She is always located near water (river, pond, lake, ocean). She is associated with the NAGA (serpents and dragons), who guard treasure.

But why Fudo? His real symbol is fire. His aureole is almost always the flames of fire. He is also the main honzon for GOMA , a fire ceremony still popular today in which defilements are symbolically burnt away.

So why would people wash money under Fudo's protection? Because he washes away impurities, kanna? Hmmm. Does not sound right. Maybe, perhaps, because drawings of Fudo show him standing on a rock rising from the sea?

For example, the drawing at Daigoji, Kyoto, and the famous 1282 drawing by Shinkai of Fudou standing on a rock rising from the sea. Moreover, Kurikara, a dragon wound around a sword, may appear in paintings of Fudou.
Also, both Kurikara and Fudou are found often near ascetic places of religious practice, such as small waterfalls. Perhaps this is the reason.

For much more on Fudo iconography and history in Japan,
please see the JAANUS page.

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Gabi:

Thanks for this comment. Also, we have
the Namikiri Fudo, the Wave-Cutting variety .


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